Improvement in hydrants



UNITED STATES PATENT LOUIS IV. WERNER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN HYDRANTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 85,879, dated Januaryl2, 1869.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS W. WERNER, of St. Louis, in the county of St.Louis and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Hydrants; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled inthe art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part, of this speciication, in which thedrawing represents a central vertical section of my improved hydrant,the middle part being broken away to bring both ends of the hydrantwithin the limits of the sheet. y

The object of this invention is to provide a hydrant which is simple,eective in its Opereration, and easily taken up to repair or clean outwhen occasion requires.A

The parts shown in red are accessory to the working of the parts claimedas new.

The barrel of the hydrant is shown at L, and may be the common-sizedgas-pipe used within buildings.

The valve-chamber U is formed with a lateral chamber, D, cast on it, andcommunicating with the valve-chamber'by ports b b, as shown.

The valve C (having. a socket, E, for the valve-rod G) is composed ofleather washers, encircling the socket E, and clamped against the socketby means of a nut, as shown.

The chamber U terminates in, a conical eX- tension, B, which is cast onthe said chant ber, and which ts water-tightwithin a correspondingconical seat, Al1aving three lugs, J J. This seat is affixed te thewater-pipe in the ground by any suitable means, as a screwthread. A nut,T, unites.| ,the hydrant-barrel L with the valve-chambengd, as shown.

Rods H H H, having l heads K K, pass through the lugs J J on the seat A,and also through similar lugs J J .on the head-sleeve Q, which latter isscrewedfonto the upper end oi' the hydrant-barrel L, `shown.

The valve-rod G is aiiixed within the socket E of the swivel-coupling,which works on the reduced end of the screwqstem N, as shown, whichlatter passes through the cap l? an d work s with a thread within thehead Q, as shown.

In practice, the hydrant is putin by inserting the conical end B in itsseat A and screwing up the nuts M M, which clamp the hyy Ot the waterleft in the barrel belowr the spout I. The lower face of the valve, whenthe latter is seated, closes the connection with the valve B, and theside surface of the valve also closes the lower opening, b, thus doublysecuring the hydrant from leakage.

Vhen the interior of the hydrant-barrel or the valve-chamber needscleaning, or any part requires repair or readjustment, the hydrantbarreland its attachments can be withdrawn without the labor of digging up thehydrant, as is usually the caseundersuch circumstances, for the nuts M Mhave only to be unscrewed, when the barrel L and chamber U can bewithdrawn from the ground.

The hydrant is simple and of small cost, and is seldom out of repair.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentlhe combination andarrangement of the valve-chamber U and head Q with the conical seat Aand screw-rods H, when the conical end B of the valve-chamber is adaptedto t into the seat A and the valve C held above said end, whereby thewater entering the latter passes around and above the Valve into thebarrel L, as lierein described, for the purpose specified.

The above s1 ecification of my invention signed by me this 15th day ofFebruary.

LOUIS W. WEB-NER.

Witnesses ALEX. F. ROBERTS, J. M. COVINGTON.

